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Don't Touch Our Junk
IBD Editorials ^ | November 16, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 11/16/2010 5:49:08 PM PST by Kaslin

Security: We're not made safer by the TSA's authorized groping of Americans, full-frontal nudity scans of passengers or 3-year-olds pulled aside for holding on to their teddy bears. One young American has had enough.

It wasn't exactly "Don't Tread on Me" or "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death." But when John Tyner, a 31-year-old software programmer from Oceanside, Calif., refused a TSA "groin check," he uttered words soon to adorn boxers and briefs of freedom lovers everywhere: "You touch my junk, and I'm going to have you arrested."

Tyner refused what he considered "a huge invasion of privacy" while attempting to board a flight at San Diego International Airport. He "opted out" of the full-body scanner, which leaves nothing to the imagination, settling for the traditional metal scanner and a basic pat-down. But the groin check, in his view, went too far.

Tyner had turned on his cell phone's video camera and placed it atop the luggage he sent through the X-ray machine. The conversation between him and a TSA supervisor was, er, revealing. The supervisor explained that if he refused, he would not be allowed to fly and would be escorted out. Tyner responded: "OK, I don't understand how a sexual assault can be made a condition of my flying."

"This is not considered a sexual assault," the supervisor said.

"It would be if you were not the government," replied Tyner.

"By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights," countered the supervisor. Oh. We wonder if Benjamin Franklin, having said that those willing to sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither, would submit to a groin check.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: groincheck; johntyner; junk; liberalfascism; lping; nannystate; obama; tsa; tsapervs; tsascanner; tyner; waronterror; wot
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1 posted on 11/16/2010 5:49:11 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Download or listen to this small audio file:

Scanners and pat-downs... Don't touch my junk.junk

2 posted on 11/16/2010 5:52:59 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Kaslin

How about- “touch my junk, it’ll be the last thing you ever touch”-?!?!


3 posted on 11/16/2010 5:53:02 PM PST by imjimbo (The constitution SHOULD be our "gun permit")
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To: Kaslin

“Radiation, penetration, or deportation. No one flies for free.”

(stolen from TOS)


4 posted on 11/16/2010 5:58:08 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Kaslin

The TSA Is Not Going To Do Sex To Me

From The Tickerguy.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko8uwkmMQ9E&feature=player_embedded#!

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=172442


5 posted on 11/16/2010 5:59:04 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: Kaslin

"Don't touch me junk. Just get in my belly!"

6 posted on 11/16/2010 5:59:38 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
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To: Kaslin
TSA promotional flier

TSA

7 posted on 11/16/2010 5:59:45 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Kaslin

As gay recruiting and Islamic pedophile recruiting runs high...TSA TRansvestite search army..
Look round all the Islamic looking aholes up and stripm search them, let the rest go through regular screening..


8 posted on 11/16/2010 6:02:19 PM PST by aces
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To: imjimbo

That would probably be considered threatening a federal officer.


9 posted on 11/16/2010 6:04:00 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: BobP

Mark Levin says it like he sees it


10 posted on 11/16/2010 6:06:00 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

What they need to do is establish a two-track system. Let those who are too squeamish to submit to a search board the Terrorist Target Airline, and the rest of us board the Searched Airline. Then when the next plane goes down, at least we can present the Darwin Award.


11 posted on 11/16/2010 6:07:17 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

How about you change your screen name because it’s obviously either a joke or a misnomer.


12 posted on 11/16/2010 6:09:07 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Kaslin

Meanwhile they will excuse muslim women from full pat downs and not going through the pornoviewer.

Tell me how that makes sense, if we’re all safer going through this crap?

I can just see a great false flag op coming out of this. Further justification to force everyone into the pornoviewer or getting searched like an inmate in lockdown.

And for those of you who don’t mind being treated like an inmate in lockdown, don’t bother to reply. You’re already big brother compliant, I am not going to be, I will go through regular metal detectors like everyone else, but I draw the line at being radiated by the pornoviewer or being searched like an inmate. I won’t change your complacency, you won’t change my mind, so just don’t bother replying to me. Save us all some time.


13 posted on 11/16/2010 6:12:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Lurker

What’s wrong with choice? If you put your privacy on such a high level that you can’t be seen on one of these computer screens, I don’t want to be on the same plane with you.


14 posted on 11/16/2010 6:15:24 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

“and the rest of us board the Searched Airline...”

...where everyone was searched except for the Islamonazi who snuck a bomb inside her burqa.


15 posted on 11/16/2010 6:15:48 PM PST by ari-freedom (Islam is at war against America, while America is at the mall.)
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To: Kaslin

What would be funny is photoshopped airport scanner pics of Uncle Jan!


16 posted on 11/16/2010 6:17:11 PM PST by KJC1
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To: ari-freedom

Nah. She goes on the other airline. Or she submits to the search.


17 posted on 11/16/2010 6:18:32 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Kaslin

I’m envisioning a yellow flag with a snake sitting on two large boulders saying, “Don’t touch my junk.”


18 posted on 11/16/2010 6:21:08 PM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: Kaslin
"By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights,"

Is this documented anywhere? I read a good bit of the TSA website and I found no reference to what rights you give up by "buying a ticket."

Seems a lot like we are being compelled to submit to a search without a warrant.

19 posted on 11/16/2010 6:22:16 PM PST by IamConservative (Our collective common sense; the only thing a 1.5GPF toilet ever flushed on the first pull.)
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To: Kaslin; Quix; houeto; null and void
The function of this radical intrusion circus is obvious:

Make retinal/thumbprint/DNA scanning "to avoid the hassle" seem unobtrusive by comparison.

Fascism part deux.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

20 posted on 11/16/2010 6:25:17 PM PST by The Comedian (I enjoy progressives, especially in a light cream sauce.)
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